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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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146420
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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146474
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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14641010
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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146421
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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146455
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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146443
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In the end nothing could bring him back because I tried. All those weeks and months, yet all I have left are the tears and memories. He said when he asked the final questions to those in charge he was confused.
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146453
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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146396
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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146387
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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146332
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I asked him his name and here’s the kicker, Leiby. It means lion.
You know what? I said mine is Levi, how do you do.
That means to accompany—like in the root of the word, it’s got that meaning.
As in levayah, funeral in Hebrew. Does that only
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146332
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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1463165
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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146388
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Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…
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146387
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he wound up hating the woman he betrayed in his heart for betraying him in her body
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146310
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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146311
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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146300
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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146398
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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146221
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Despite the newly bright bricks and the working clock, Cassie couldn't help but take a deep breath before entering King Street Station. She had always tried to hold her breath when her family cut through it on the way to Mariners games but had never succeeded, not…
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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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1462107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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146211
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*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.
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146200
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He then spent his walk home to his single apartment spitting up various textures of red, combinations of cherry and blood mostly.
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146230
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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146251
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The clip-clopping of footsteps now echoes from the opposite end of the alleyway, and as you turn to face the figure who appears behind you, the figure wearing a fierce Noh-drama mask, you determine that this time you will enlist its aid in decoding this r
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1462139
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The line weights are spot on/
and the snap of lines is textbook/
for a discipline that died with AutoCad
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1462126
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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